Kibitzr is a command line utility, that (depending on configuration) polls web pages and notify on changes through different channels. Kibitzr is written in Python and the first version was built within an hour. This speed of development is achieved by Py... (more…)

I was recently looking at the source of a wxPython-based GUI application, about 45.5KLOC in size, not counting the libraries used (e.g. Twisted). The code was written by Java developers who are relatively new to Python, and it suffers from some performanc... (more…)

This PEP proposes extending the existing mechanism for setting up sys.path to include a new __pypackages__ directory, in addition to the existing locations. The new directory will be added at the start of sys.path, after the current working directory and ... (more…)

The previous chapters discussed how to extend Python, that is, how to extend the functionality of Python by attaching a library of C functions to it. It is also possible to do it the other way around: enrich your C/C++ application by embedding Python in ... (more…)

A library to assist writing memory-unsafe code in "pure" python, without any imports (i.e. no ctypes etc.) - DavidBuchanan314/unsafe-python... (more…)